These are exciting times for electoral reformers. The Representation of the People Bill currently before Parliament includes a number of provisions designed to widen public participation in elections: lowering the voting age from 18 to 16, introducing automatic voter registration, and widening the forms of ID that must be produced

In the early 1990s I was working in Prison Service Headquarters in London. One of my tasks was to write an anti-bullying strategy for prisons in England and Wales. This was commissioned following a series of incidents of self-harm in prisons which were attributable to bullying. As part

This is a concept in management theory. Employees do a good job and are promoted to another job at the next level up. This may require different skills. They may succeed or not, but at some point, they will be promoted beyond the level where they can perform effectively. So

Just in: the result of the political non-contest of the year, the Clacton byelection. As expected, Farage got more votes than anywhere else. His total of 22,239 was slightly up on the 2024 general election where he received 21,225. His percentage of the vote share rose from